Ski



May 12, 1964 A. BAUDOU 3,132,874

SKI

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SKI

Filed Oct. 9, 1961 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 @wwwa United States Patent 3,132,874 sin Antoine Baudou, Les Eglisottes (Gironde), France Filed Oct. 9, 1961, Ser. No. 143,691 Claims priority, application France Oct. 12, 1960 Vv1 Claim. (Cl. 2S0-11.13)

l material and of a exible tibrous material.

One knows also skis including a recessed body made from synthetic resin and incorporating in the median portion thereof a rigid core of wood or the like.

Generally, all such types of skis, which are ditlicult to build, are far from insuring completely satisfactory results as 4far as one considers weigh-t, resistance to impacts and torsional strains, as well as rigidity, which must yield to some longitudinal and transversal resiliency, and hr1-ally the absence of sensitiveness to atmospheric conditions.

'Ihe present invention has for its object to provide an improved ski hav-ing a structure which is adapted to solve as perfectly as possible the abovementioned complicated problems.

Said ski is essentially characterized by the vfact that it comprises an integral web or reinforcing member, which is embedded in a coating of a thermosetting material, eg. a polyester resin, :and has a. corrugated cross-section in which the valleys termed by the corrugations may be either lled with said thermosetting material or lett completely or partially empty.

dn one embodiment of the present invention, the abovemen-tioned integral web is constituted by a corrugated element made kfrom a metal, or a composite laminated material rrnly compressed, inserted between two base plates, while said therrnosetting coating in which said element is embedded has a laminated structure and is constituted by a Ipolyester resin mixed with glass ribers or textile iibers.

In another embodiment, said coating comprising the ski body is hollow and Ireceives in the longitudinal recess thereof the aforementioned corrugated integral element.

In still another embodiment of my invention, said corrugated element has in the medial part thereof a plane surface followed by corrugations extending in a longitudinal direction and said element is associated with a base plate constituted by side members which are ernbedded in a thin sheet of laminated polyester.

A similar .arrangement may be realized utilizing either parallel tubes which are set or not in a side by side relationship and are inserted between two base plates :or a

single recessed member made from a laminated resin and formed e.g. by a casting or extrusion process.

In any case, one or more components of the integral web may be used .for reinforcing the upper longitudinal sharp edges, and if desired the lower sharp edges, of the ski body, such sharp edges being provided or not with the conventional ski edges.

In the annexed drawings there has been shown in an illustrative and by no means limita-tive manner various embodiments of a slci according to this invention.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic top plan View showing one of said embodiments of a ski according to this invention;

' FIGS. 2 and 3 lare sectional views taken from =II-II and III-III, respectively, in FIG. 1;

3,132,874 Patented May 12, 1.964

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FIGS. 4, 5, 6, 7,*8, 9 and l0 are similar cross-sections f of alternative embodiments of the ski shown in FIG. l.

4Referring now to the drawings, theernbodiment shown in FIGS. 1, Zand 3 is constituted by a web or reinforcing member generally indicated by the reference .1 and ernbedded in a coating 2, made e.g. from a thermosetting resin reintiorced with `glass `bers, textile -libers or laminated polyester. AReintorcing member 1 comprises la corrugated element 3 inserted between two base plates 4 and 5, the assembly being entirely embedded without any void in coating 2.

Said corrugated element 3 and base plates 4 and 5 are preferably made trom some metal or resin which has been laminated under high pressure.

The longitudinal edges 3a of said corrugated element 3 are directed upwardly :and terminate at 3b along the longitudinal sharp edges of said coating 2 which are thus reinforced.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the reinforcing member or web, which is also embedded in a coating similar to that in FIGS. 2 and 3, is hollow. It comprises a corrugated element 3 on which two base plates 4 and 5 are welded, as at 7.

In Ithe alternative form shown in FIG. 5, the ski web is lconstituted by a corrugated element 23 including, on either side of the Amedian part `8 thereof which is plane, corrugations 9 small in height. As in the above described embodiments the edges 231? of said corrugated element 23 are flush with the upper sharp edges cf the ski body 2 and reintorce them.

A base plate generally designated by the reference m1- mer-al '10, which lies under said element 23, is built up with suitably braced side member 1v1, made from wood or some other light in weight material and embedded in a thin sheet v12 of laminated polyester.

The reinforcing member so constructed is embedded in a coating made from a thermos'ettin-g resin reinforced with glass bers or laminated polyester.

In FIG. 6, it can be seen that the element 33 of the ski reinforcing web comprises corrugations having a square cross-section, while such corrugations have a trapezoidal shape in FIG. 7, it being understood ythat such corrugations may as well have any other desired crosssection.

In the case of FIG. y8, the reinforcing member 1 consists of two channel elements 3c and 3d having longitudinal corrugations the crossaseetion of which is hemicylindrical, said corrugations being superimposed so las to form contiguous parallel channels 13. The edges fof the outermost corrugations of the channel elements 3d are extended up to 3e, so as to reinforce the sharp edges of the ski body.

In the embodiment shown rin FIG. 9, channels y13y reterred to in connection with FIG. `8 are obtained by means of tubes which are clamped between two base plates similar to those above described.

Longitudinal edges 5b of the upper base plate `5 reinforce the upper sharp edges of coating 2.

An alternative torni lof the devices illustrated in FIGS. 8 :and 9 is shown in FIG. 10. In this case, the web or reintorcing member consists of :a single recessed element made from a laminated resin. Said element comprises a series of contiguous parallel channels 13 having a crosssection which may be circular or not. Such element may be made by means of a casting or extrusion process.

In all the Iabove described embodiments, conventional ski edges l6, =6b rare embedded in the coating material 2. I-f desired, said ski edges may be replaced by extensions (not shown) of the edges of the web components.

A skconstructed according to my invention has, among oit-hers, the following properties: despite its 10W weight, it has "a paramount resistance 'and resiliency, which :are perfectly distributed ialong thewhole length thereof, its longitudinal sharp edgesware protected fand reinforced by edges 3b, 5b iand 3e `of the `Web thereof, land coating 2 makes said ski virtual-1y non responsive to atmospheric changes, .thus preventing :any distortion thereof.

What 1 eliam is:

A `ski compnising `a, reinforcing beam consisting of a corrugated member between ruwe sheets, said beam being embedded in a laminated lcoating `consisting; [of a polyester resin iutermixed with brous material, the edges of said corrugated member extending through said coating to the corners between the sides and horizontal surfaces of the ski to form reinforcements for said come-rs.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Hopkinson May 29, 1928 lPorter July 23, 1946 Barker Nov. 278, `1950 Hem Jian. 8, 1952 Rheinfrank Nov. 2-3, 1954 FOREIGN PATENTS France July 4, 1932 Germany Feb. 5, 1936 Italy Nov, 12, 21947 Norway Sept. 24,1951 Great Britain Nov. 276, 1958 Canada Mar. 17, 1959 Austria 1 Feb. 10, 1961 

